The SFF-8088 MINI SAS is a solution designed to realize external interconnection of small SAS.
The SFF-8088 is a 26P ‘mini SAS’ connector, and the metal shell is compatible with shielded external connections. A typical application is a SAS HBA between a SAS link to a SAS drive subsystem.
The SFF-8088 complies with the latest 6Gb/s mini-SAS 2.0 specification and supports 6Gb data transfer protocol
The internal counterpart of the SFF-8088 Mini-SAS is SFF-8087, which is also Mini-SAS 2.0 compatible and also supports 6Gb/s SAS data transfer speed.
Both SFF-8088 and SFF-8087 can support up to 4 ports (4 channels) of SAS data.
Application data/communication
1. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
2. Workstation
3. Rack Server
4. Server
5. Storage shelf